To Save a PowerPoint Presentation(or anything for that matter) to a CD

You cannot save your presentation to a CD the same way that you save to a disk.

You know that you use Save or Save As to save to a disk and your disk is in drive D.

Save As lets you change the name of the presentation or the location. This means that you can save it to your folder or your disk.

First make sure your presentation is saved in your folder. Quit out of PowerPoint or whatever application you are using (could be Microsoft Word). Open up your documents folder. Make sure you can see the icon (picture) of your presentation. Right click once on it so that it is highlighted and a menu with a lot of choices will open up. You will choose Send to which is the 10^th option down. Within the Send To option you are going to choose the bottom option which is CD Drive (D:). It even has an icon (picture) of a CD next to it. Make sure before you do this that your CD is in the drive.

You will see a folder coming on your screen as the file is copied from your folder to the CD. The computer may ask you a question about do you want to continue although you may lose some data. Just click on yes and keep going. When it is finished you will see a bubble down in the lower right hand corner of your screen that says, “You have files waiting to be written to the CD. To see these files now, click this balloon.

		Look closely at the videos folder that I copied and you will notice how pale it is. It is not finished copying. You can tell because it is pale and because in the window marked CD Writing Tasks, the top entry is Write these files to CD.
		After you choose, write these files to CD, the CD writing wizard will come up and you will see the graphic to the left. Obviously, the date will be whatever date you are doing it on and that is where you can put a suitable name for the disk in. I usually just choose next. A new screen will come up briefly that says initializing the CD (that means getting the disk ready to write new material to). Then it writes your files.
		You will see a picture like you see to the left. The CD writing wizard will go through several steps. It will tell you above the green line what is going on each step of the way. When it is done, the CD will pop out of the drive. It is always a good idea to put the CD back in the drive and see that what you copied is there. The color of the presentation should be RED. It should no longer be the pale color that you had at the beginning.
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